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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

People hike across a glacier with mountains in the foreground.

Recovery Mission

An Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations and Alaskan Command team is searching the the area on Mount Silverthrone in Denali National Park, Alaska, Aug. 3, 2023, where a C-119, with 19 service members aboard, crashed on Nov. 7, 1952.

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